Batteries and Storage Technologies

Despite their hefty price tag, smartphones have an average consumer lifetime of about three years. The lithium ion batteries that power them, however, can last for about five years—meaning that just about every discarded smartphone generates e-waste and squanders the… Read More ›

Toyota Motor Corp. is responding to the main criticism of fuel cell cars, that making the hydrogen for the fuel is not clean, with plans to help make the hydrogen using wind power. Fuel cells are zero-emission, running on the… Read More ›

Tesla isn’t the only one building batteries for your home. As Elon Musk and company trumpet the Powerwall, so many other outfits, including Samsung and Panasonic and LG Chem, are fashioning similar devices that can store energy for use when the… Read More ›

A team of researchers with Kogakuin University has demonstrated a lithium ion battery which is not only nearly transparent, but can also be recharged with direct sunlight alone. The battery was demonstrated at Innovation Japan 2015, where the leader of… Read More ›

John Keller from Military and Aerospace Electronics writes: The worldwide market for thin-film and printed batteries over the next seven years will be 32 times larger than it is today, predict analysts at market researcher n-tech Research (formerly NanoMarkets) in… Read More ›

Almost a year ago Google launched The Little Box Challenge, an open competition to build a (much) smaller power inverter, with a $1,000,000 prize. July 22 2015 was the deadline for the people to submit a testing application. The winners… Read More ›

What does it mean when an oil industry magazine puts the Tesla Model S on the cover of the magazine? Here’s the article: Why battery technology could drive the electric vehicle to new heights – and disrupt the fossil fuel… Read More ›

A method for making elastic high-capacity batteries from wood pulp was unveiled by researchers in Sweden and the US. Using nanocellulose broken down from tree fibres, a team from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stanford University produced an elastic,… Read More ›

Hydrogen has huge potential as a fuel. Not only in cars but in endless industrial uses such as the generation of fertilizers or the synthesis of hydrogen compounds. But producing hydrogen is so energy intensive that it seemed pointless to try… Read More ›

How long does it take to recharge an iPhone? A few hours, right? Nucleus Scientific revealed a solution onstage today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY that can charge a phone in minutes. With this technology, the company aims to fully recharge… Read More ›